UW Bioengineering is proud of all our faculty, staff and students, and the many awards they earn for their work in teaching, mentoring and improving lives through bioengineering research and innovations.
Faculty Award Highlights
- 29 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellows
- 13 members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- 14 past and current UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellows
- Six members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Six AAAS Fellows
- Five National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Student Award Highlights
- 18 current National Science Foundation Fellows
- Four Fulbright Student Fellows, one Gates Cambridge Scholar, one Rhodes Scholar, one Luce Scholar, and nine Goldwater Scholars as of 2020
- 8 Levinson Emerging Scholar awards
- Multiple awards from NASA Space Grant
- Multiple awards in business plan competitions from UW Foster School of Business
- Fellowships from American Heart Association and Washington Research Foundation
- More Amgen Scholars than any other UW department; 31 since 2007
- Over 400 Mary Gates Scholarships
Featured Awards and Recognition
Amy Orsborn receives prestigious NSF CAREER award
Amy Orsborn, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her research in sensorimotor neural interfaces.
Four Bioengineering professors receive WRF grant for pioneering life-science projects
UW Bioengineering faculty have been awarded major new grant funding by the Washington Research Foundation (WRF). Of the six UW teams awarded the grant, four are from UW Bioengineering. These teams are tasked with [...]
Ayokunle Olanrewaju receives prestigious Beckman Young Investigator Award
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awarded UW Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Ayokunle (Ayo) Olanrewaju with the Beckman Young Investigator Award. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program offers research funding to highly [...]
NIH provides major support to CRBM for advancing reproducible biomedical modeling
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has committed a multi-million-dollar grant to support the CRBM at the University of Washington.
UW Bioengineering Awards 2024
During the 2024 Bioengineering Capstone Gala, 12 students, faculty, postdoctoral researchers and staff were recognized for their dedication and contributions to the UW Bioengineering community. Research Awards Research Award: Staff [...]
Six Bioengineering students named to 2024 Husky 100
UW named six Bioengineering students as a part of the 2024 Husky 100. This accolade is presented to exceptional juniors, seniors and graduate students who have made significant contributions both within the University and [...]